Foreign Secretary Says U.K. Is
No Closer to Decision on EMU

AP-Dow Jones News Service

Updated Sept. 28, 1997 1:03 p.m. ET

United Kingdom Foreign Secretary Robin Cook, echoing comments made earlier Sunday by Chancellor of the Exchequer Gordon Brown, denied any shift in the British government's position on joining the European economic and monetary union.

Mr. Cook told the BBC it has always been a possibility that Britain would join the single currency in 1999 but...